The comments following this post on Iain Dale’s Diary are must-read. There is bubbling public anger at the failure of the police to take crime seriously and real disappointment at the failure of anyone in authority to be exercised about it.

I only have one complaint about Iain’s account of the ‘Doughty Street crime wave’ – he neglected to mention that my recently acquired bike was also stolen over the weekend – from outside 18 Doughty Street.